{"id":146,"date":"2008-08-13T10:12:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T17:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/?p=146"},"modified":"2008-08-13T10:12:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T17:12:03","slug":"ampers-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Amper’s and?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Designer and fellow San Franciscan Chris Simmons of MINE<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n

Since I was a child I have been fascinated with the ampersand. I used to type my high school papers on a typewriter and that key always stood out to me. \u201cEh\u201d Be\u201d \u201cCee\u201d \u201cDee\u201d \u201cDollar Sign\u201d \u201cAmpersand?\u201d It was such a strange character and had such a foreign-sounding name. \u201cWhy is it called an ampersand?\u201d I used to wonder. Was it invented by a Mr. Amper (Amper\u2019s and)? Was there such thing as an amper and if so was what was their plurality manifest in an \u201c&\u201d? Years later I found out that the ampersand was a ligature of \u201ce\u201d and \u201ct\u201d thus forming the latin word \u201cet\u201d meaning \u201cand: but I still didn\u2019t know what this ampers business was all about. A few years ago I tracked down the origin, and now I feel somewhat complete where this symbolic conjunction is concerned: The word \u201campersand\u201d is derived from the explanation one might give to explain what the \u201c&\u201d symbol represents. One might write, \u201c&\u201d per se \u201cand\u201d (the ampersand symbol to say the word \u201cand\u201d). Now, speak this sentence aloud several times quickly and you and you\u2019ll know how the term was derived, \u201cAnd per se and. And per se and. And per se and. Andperseand. Ampersand.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Designer and fellow San Franciscan Chris Simmons of MINE writes: Since I was a child I have been fascinated with the ampersand. I used to type my high school papers on a typewriter and that key always stood out to me. \u201cEh\u201d Be\u201d \u201cCee\u201d \u201cDee\u201d \u201cDollar Sign\u201d \u201cAmpersand?\u201d It was such a strange character and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[44,169,325,417],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-about-ampersands","tag-ampers-and","tag-design","tag-mine","tag-san-francisco"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}